The Huntley Farmside

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VOLUME 11 — NUMBER 15
THURSDAY. JULY   16,  1970
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Jo Anne Lamz, Miss Huntlny, tallcs wiUi Charlea Weingart, pretUest of die McHenry County Pair Assodatioo,  about the Ml|» Mciieniy Comatg caiAM. Jo Anne is one of 11 canitirta, in Ihe —*<iliiili0..te^M»;. te k^illw a* tlw 1>W1muj Clawrtj Vmk on Uw lfc< lIpgnWaBEiaa^ Angwt 5. (iX>n PetMley Piioto).
Flag Burning Ceremony
The Huntley American Le^on Post 673 has scheduled a Flag Burning Ceremony on Sunday, July 19 at 1:30 P.M. The Ceremony will take place at the Huntley Village Square. Torn, faded or otherwise unservice¬ able flags will be properly destroyed by burning.
Other Posts and Civic organiza¬ tions have been invited to partici¬ pate. The colors to be burned will be scorted by a Color Guard. TTiero will be a drum squad of boys from Huntley tofurnish the "ruffles", and a bugler to sound the proper calls. Individuals may bring flags to the Huntley to furnish the "ruffles", & day of the ceremony (July 19] so that we may have adequate burners.
The entire program is open to the public. It is hoped that many people will avail themselves of the oKJor- tunity to witness the honorable and respectful manner in which "Old Glory'' is finally retired.
Change In Homestead Law
The Kane County Board of Re¬ view and Frederick J. Spriet, Snper- visor of Assessments, have been notified that Governor Ogilvie sign¬ ed into law Senate Bill 1368, an amendment to the Homestead Ex¬ emption Law, which by it's provi¬ sions applies retroactively to the January 1, 1970 Assessment year, taxes payable 1971.
Tha new law has amended the foregoing Homestead Exemption Law effective for the assessment year 1970 and thereafter now pro¬ vides as follows:
"Section 19.24. A homestead ex- Continued on Page Two HOMESTEAD LAW
Labor Donated On Medical Center
A number of local people have been donating their labor towarcte the improvement of the Huntley Medical Building. During the past two weeks, fhe evergreens on the West side of the building ware moved and transplanted to the East side and the rear of the building. New sidewalks were installed where the evergreens had been removed and a cement footing was poured for the building of a new entrance- way to the North side of the build¬ ing.
The entranceway was built by Joe Rizzo, who donated more than a week of his time to this project. Ir» addition to building the new en¬ tranceway, Mr. Rizzo built a new reception counter and put a door in the hallv/ay, separating the dentists office from the Huntley Hair Fash¬ ion salon. ,
The wooden doors in the Center were finished, new light fixtures were installed and a considerable amount of painting was done to the interior as well as the exterior. The men that were responsible for all of this work were: Earl Lamz, Kenneth Storck, Harold Kunde, Helm Thu¬ row, Bill Kuestner, Ed Fox, Roger Burmeister, Leon OQiaber, John Rugh, Joe Rizzo, Walter Burmeister, Steve Goehl, Timer Baldey, Dick Enstrom, Dennis Enstrom and Irv Wasserstrass.
Notice
Agricultural Advisory Board & F.F.- A.  Picnic July 26, at Diaka Park.
School Board Report
Last Monday, July 13, the Hunt¬ ley School Board met primarily to discuss new teacher contracts and the 1970-71 Teacher's Monthly De¬ partmental  Budget.
After a short discussion the Board approved the following salaries: Caroline Lockbridge, fourth grade substitute teacher, $7,208; Her- shall J. McFearin, Industrial Arts and Agriculture teacher, |14,572; Edgar Ream, Athletic Coach, $9,374: Roger Simpson, Industrial Arts teacher, $8,244; Elma J(^y, Math teacher, $1,142; Eugene Slo¬ towski, Custodian and Busdriver, $6,300. The Board also hired Larry Kahl as the iUth and sixth grade athletic coach and Julie Anne Peter son as high school girls athletic coach.
Hie Board accepted the resig¬ nation erf Richard Jacobson.
The Board then met in closed session with Mr. Ed Seiler of 120 S. Myrtle to discuss the conditions of his employment. No decisions were reached after 40 minutes of discussion.
¦^-'nm tfamtxi ipeimWiia W Us fiJCf hour meeting in discussion over the new 1970-71 teacher's monthly departmental budget The final ap¬ proved budgetted amounts are: Vocal Music, $700; Latin-English, $¦•^00; Guidance, $500; Driver's Ed¬ ucation, $100; Social Studies, $300; English, $400; Elementary Science, $500; Physical Education, $400; Audio Visual, $2000; General Music, $400; Physical Education, $800; Baseball, $400; Health, $500; Work  Training,  $800.
Several departments received a higher budget than last year's these arc: Biology, Science raised $150 to $700, Vocational Agriculture ra¬ ised $450 to $1750, Industrial Arts raised $650 to $1750, Home Econo¬ mics raised $;150 to $800, ElMnent- ary Library, which doubled last year's budget, $4000, Supplement¬ ary supplies raised $100 to $500, FootbaU raised to $2300, Girl'e Phy sical Education raised $100 to $360, Basketball raised $39 to $1300, and Commercial was raised $25 to $176.
Of the 32 departments only 7 received cuts . from last year's budget, they were: Drama cut ^00 to $300, Chemistry and Physics cut $100 to $500, Instrumental Music cut $400 to $3000, Gentian cut $200 to $300, Mathmatics cut $150 to $250, the Christmas Progl^m was cut $50 to $100, and the High Sch¬ ool Library was ctit $500 to $4000.
In the final action of the meeting now drafting equipment was order¬ ed for the Industrial Arts Depart¬ ment Thirty new lockers were or¬ dered to make up for the shortage so that incoming students will not have to double up with other stu¬ dents. And the Board approved requisitioned repairs on the Home Economics  sewing machines.
The next meeting will be held July 27 at the Huntley High Sch¬ ool. Tabled for discussion next week is the feasibility of opening lie. The meeting was adjourned at the Schools' libraries to the pub- 11:40 p.m.
Summer School In Huntley
Instnictkin In typewreiting offers students the opportunity to leam tho entire keyboard by touch during the first six weeks. Additional six week periods, preferably two, would enable those students to omit one semester of Ugb school typhig and move right into the second semester. Letter typing and short manuscript work would be the basic of instruction te these addi¬ tional seasions.
Typfaig Is a skill tiiat is no longer reserved only for the offlce bound. The typewriter has become a personal-use item. It is vital that our students leam to use this machine as early te life as possible. Tliis skill can hdp tlieia hi school aa well as te later life.
During the summer school program, the Huntiey Elementary School has been able to offer typerwriting to elementary students for the first time. Fifty-six students, in grades 5-8, are under the instruction of Mary Ellen I^ugg.
Ad important aspect of tiie Huntley Elementary School's summer program is tile Inatmction htbtfg ^vetf te remedial reading by Mr. William Leggee. Ei^te^ students, rangiag froas flrst to seventh grade, are beteg given tetensive smail-group and in^Tidualized help In reading.
During tile regular sdioal year, the remedial readteg classes hrled to adhere as daaely as possible to the regular classroom lessons. During sum- mer, different mateiiris and approaches are used. Great emphasis is placed on the improvement of spellteg skills for tlie older children. Tlie smaller diildren ragage te a number of word games designed to provide instmction in phonics and atnictaral word-attach sUUs. All stadents work on tlie com¬ prehension of sentences phrases and paragraps. Oral readteg is streessed and die aotomated System 80 maditee helps chUdren see words In tlieir proper context. As te the past, the remedial reading program has proven qalte succeatlnl. Readteg of course, is the most important skill to be gaiaed from fomal edacation.